Name: Earth Day Centers Activities for Sorting Trash, Garbage, Waste & Recycling
Brand: Kimberly's Classroom
Price: 3.75 USD
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Earth Day Centers Activities for Sorting Trash, Garbage, Waste & Recycling

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Grades

Kindergarten - 2nd

Mostly used with K

Subjects

Vocabulary, Earth Sciences, Environment

Description

❤️Looking for a fun and engaging way to celebrate Earth Day or teach about recycling? These colorful, differentiated trash & recycle sorting play mats are the perfect way to help your students understand the importance of taking care of our Earth, while practicing their literacy and fine motor skills!

✏️Students will love sorting waste items (newspaper, can etc.) by recyclable categories (metal, paper, glass etc.) and sorting actions (turning off the lights, composting etc. ) by whether or not they are helpful or hurtful to our Earth.

✏️Cards are differentiated and come with text or no text.

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♻️Ways to Use:

☑ You can use the pictures/cards as labels by attaching them to containers. Then, students can sort by placing the cards into the containers.

☑ Use the large pictures to decorate your bulletin board, door, or hallway!

☑ Students can use large pictures, medium size cards or mini cards to read, identify, match, and sort environmental concepts.

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⭐️ Great for whole group, individual work, centers, sub tub, partner work, early finishers, an enrichment activity, word wall, write the room, or extra practice at home!

⭐️Perfect for kindergarten, first or second grade students!

⭐️ Check out the preview and video preview for a sneak peek!

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✅ Includes: (57 pages)

☑ Number sorting mats (4 pages)

☑ Bins and Earth flashcards (3 pages)

☑ Category flashcards - pictures only (3 pages)

☑ Category flashcards - pictures & text (3 pages)

☑ Rubber large bin and mini cards (3 pages)

☑ Paper large bin and mini cards (3 pages)

☑ Glass large bin and mini cards (3 pages)

☑ Metal large bin and mini cards (3 pages)

☑ Plastic large bin and mini cards (3 pages)

☑ E-waste large bin and mini cards (3 pages)

☑ Batteries large bin and mini cards (3 pages)

☑ Light bulbs large bin and mini cards (3 pages)

☑ Compost large bin and mini cards (3 pages)

☑ Trash large bin and mini cards (3 pages)

☑ Happy Earth picture and mini cards (9 pages)

☑ Sad Earth picture and mini cards (5 pages)

✅ Bonus: (63 pages)

☑ Table of contents (3 pages)

☑ How to use (3 pages)

☑ Black and white set (57 pages)

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⭐️Looking for more Earth Day resources?

♻️ Earth Day & Recycling Growing Bundle

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If you have any questions, please contact me:

kimberly@kimberlysclassroom.com

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look. Wishing you a wonderful school year!

❤️Kimberly

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Teacher reviews

“Loved that students could do this both independently, in small group and in whole group.”

Maria F.

“My students love using these picture cards with the little trash and recycle cans I purchase. Thanks”

Dream T.

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This was a great resource for my classroom. My students loved it.

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Hi Laura! It makes me so happy to hear that your firsties enjoyed this resource. I really appreciate you taking time out of your day to leave kind feedback and I hope you have a great rest of the school year! :)

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Hi Lorena! It means the world to me that this resource was a good fit for your firsties. Thank you for the kind feedback! I hope you have a wonderful rest of the school year! :)

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Hi Sarah! It means the world to me that this activity was a good fit for your 5th graders. Thank you for including it as part of your Native Americans unit! I hope you have a wonderful rest of the school year! :)

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Hi Jennifer! Thank you for the very kind feedback! It makes my day to know that this activity was helpful for your students. I hope you're all having a great school year so far! :)

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Hi Sarah! Thank you for choosing to use this activity with your students! I really appreciate the kind words and hope that you have a great rest of the school year! :)

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Hi Sarah! Thanks again for supporting my little shop and for leaving kind feedback! It means a lot to me. Have a wonderful rest of your day! :)

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Hi Sofia! Thank you for choosing to use this activity with your students! I really appreciate the kind words and hope that you have a great rest of the school year! :)

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My second graders love learning about the native Americans and what their culture was like and the different signs stand for.

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Hi Wanda! I love hearing that your second graders enjoyed this activity! Thank you for sharing and for the kind words. I appreciate all you do for the education community! :)

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Hi Rebecca! Thank you for the kind words! I'm thrilled that this activity was helpful in your classroom and hope you and your 5th graders have a wonderful school year. :)

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This was such a fun and engaging resource for my second grade students and was really helpful when teaching them about native americans

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Hi Shayna! Thank you for the kind words! I'm so glad that this resource was helpful for your 2nd graders and hope that you all have a wonderful school year! :)

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Hi Ogechi! Thank you for the kind words! I'm so glad that this resource was helpful for your students and hope that you all have a wonderful school year! :)

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Thank you for this resource! My students are going to have a blast making these.

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Hi Brooke! Thank you for choosing to use this resource with your students and for sharing your experience! I'm so glad that your students have enjoyed these coloring pages and hope you have a wonderful start to the new school year! :)

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Hi Christopher! Thank you so much for the kind feedback! I'm grateful that you chose to use this activity with your students and hope you have a wonderful start to the new school year! :)

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